Live Opera from up the road in
stunning high definition and Dolby Digital sound. A truly
remarkable experience.
These generally sell out so please
book to avoid missing out.
Three live and three recorded operas. Live £20.00 Recorded
£12.50.
Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss
Tuesday 4th June 7.00pm Book Now
Live. Sung in German with English
surtitles.
The 2013 Glyndebourne Festival opens with a new production of this
compelling and intricately crafted collaboration between composer
Richard Strauss and writer Hugo von Hofmannsthal. After the
enormous success of Der Rosenkavalier, the two men conceived the
idea of a light entertainment, a small trifle to amuse and divert
the public.
Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi
Sunday 23rd June 5.00pm Book Now
Captured live in June 2009. Sung in Italian with English
supertitles.Throughout his long career, Verdi longed to find a good
subject for a comic opera. Towards the very end of it he found that
subject, in the vast and jovial shape of Shakespeare's John
Falstaff.
Le Nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart
Sunday 14th July 4.00pm Book Now
Captured live in July 2012. Sung in Italian with English
surtitles.Michael Grandage's production of Mozart's Le Nozze di
Figaro returns. The opera has particular significance, as it
was the first ever to be performed at Glyndebourne in 1934,
with festival co-founder Audrey Mildmay in the role of Susanna.
Hippolyte et Aricie by Jean-Philippe
Rameau
Thursday July 25th 6.15pm Book Now
Live. Sung in French with English surtitles.When
Rameau died in 1764, the Mercure de France concluded its obituary
with the words "Here lies the God of Harmony." In many
ways he defined 18th-century French music, publishing his widely
influential Treaty on Harmony in 1722. Hippolyte et Aricie
was Rameau's first work for the stage, written when he was nearly
50. It is also Glyndebourne's first production of an opera by
Rameau, and will strike audiences, as it did in Paris in 1733, with
its richness of invention.
Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti
Tuesday August 6th 7.15pm Book Now
Live. Sung in Italian with English
surtitles.Donizetti was an enormously prolific composer. Don
Pasquale is the 64th of his 66 operas, and was written only a
year before the onset of the syphilis-induced dementia that was
eventually to overwhelm him. Given the circumstances, it is hardly
surprising that the diamond-bright wit and brilliance of this opera
also has a distinctly dark side. Danielle de Niese, who is
acknowledged as one of the world's most talented and charismatic
artists and has been described as "the world's coolest
soprano" by the New York Times, performs the role of
Norina.
Billy Budd by Benjamin Britten
Sunday August 25th 4.00pm Book Now
Captured live in August 2010. Sung in English with English
surtitles.
This year marks the centenary of Benjamin Britten, who was born on
22 November - the feast day of Saint Cecilia, patron saint of
music. His powerfully dramatic Billy Budd returns to Glyndebourne,
with Jacques Imbrailo in the title role and Sir Mark Elder
conducting.
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